Is denying a patient medical care ever justified?
Should patents on living organisms be permitted?
When does consciousness begin in human being?
Are there circumstances under which people should be sterilized?

Questions such as these and others are the basis of assignments, debate topics, and life and death decisions people face everyday. They are aspects of a broad and dynamic field called Bioethics. Bioethics is the where ethics right and wrong intersect with biology, medicine, biotechnology, politics, law, religion and philosophy. It encompasses issues of profound...